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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Neuromodulation Techniques for Headache Management.

Noora Reffat, Carolina Pusec, Scott Price, Mayank Gupta, Philippe Mavrocordatos, Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Interventional neuromodulation techniques for cervicogenic headache.Journal of anesthesia and translational medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Noora ReffatSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-2875-3175
Carolina PusecDepartment of Neurology, University of Wisconsin Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
Scott PriceSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
Mayank GuptaKansas Pain Management & Neuroscience Research Center, Kansas City, KS 66214, USA.
Philippe MavrocordatosSwiss Pain Institute, 1003 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Alaa Abd-ElsayedDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin Health, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
University of Wisconsin Health · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This narrative review aims to summarize evidence regarding the current utilization and future applications of neuromodulation in patients with headaches, with special attention paid to migraine and chronic cluster headache. A search was conducted in PubMed in August of 2023 to survey the current literature on neuromodulation for the treatment of headache. In total, the search yielded 1989 results, which were further filtered to include only systematic reviews published between 2022 to 2023 to capture the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on this topic. The citation lists of these articles were reviewed to find additional research on neuromodulation and supplement the results presented in this paper with primary literature. Research on the use of neuromodulation for the treatment of headache has predominantly focused on four neuromodulation techniques: peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Outcome measures reported in this article include impact on migraine and headache frequency and/or pain intensity, adverse effects of the neuromodulation technique, and associated costs, when available. We found that neuromodulation has developed utility as an alternative treatment for both chronic cluster headaches and migraines, with a reduction in frequency and intensity of headache most elucidated from the articles mentioned in this review.

Indexed as

headachemigraineneuromodulationpain management

Identifiers

PMID38398683
PMCPMC10890676
OpenAlexW4391157157

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